Free Post engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: image verification, cops on TikTok — and why celebs are using a social platform you've never heard of It's easy to get sucked into the idea that social media is mainly a promotional tool. Today's digest is a reminder that it's much more than that — for good and ill
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Free Post machine learning Deepfakes aren't the problem yet - their existence is The mere existence of deepfakes is undermining our sense of reality and truth
Free Post social media verification Messy verification process leave blue ticks open to abuse Social media account verification continues to suck. Surprise. Taylor Lorenz: All this has led to a glut of mid-tier celebrities, sports stars, and moderately known people across a wide span
Free Post verification Social media verification: still a crapshoot The opaque and unpredictable routes to verified status on social media, make it a desirable status symbol, and a distorting influence on social interactions
Free Post misinformation The Momo Challenge: a press-driven panic over a non-existent threat The Momo Challenge has been all over the internet - and the papers. Only one small problem: it doesn't exist.
Free Post social media verification The critical need for verification skills in modern journalism education A talk by the BBC's Mark Frankel reinforced the critical need for more verification skills in modern newsrooms
Free Post storyful The Guardian catches Storyful tracking what videos journalists are watching Storyful has been running an internal feed of all the videos clients using its Chrome extension watch. Is this malice or incompetence?
Free Post Twitter Hoaxers are crippling Twitter's breaking news value Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
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Free Post claire wardle Defining the real forms of Fake News The lovely, lovely First Draft Coalition has been doing some excellent work in unpicking the roots of the real “Fake News”, before that phrase got co-opted. In particular, research director
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Free Post Buzzfeed Buzzfeed is trying to speed up social media debunking Buzzfeed has a social media verification team: BuzzFeed Canada editor and First Draft Coalition member Craig Silverman will be leading the charge from Toronto, “bringing his deep expertise at debunking
Free Post social media verification 2015's rich crop of viral fakes 76 fake images that went viral this year And this is why every journalist should be taught social media verification.
Free Post fact-checking The "£500 pcm bed under the stairs" story is probably just marketing Want to know why social media verification skills are so important? Well, take a look at this tweet, which has been the basis for dozens of stories in the media
